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The phone is a remarkably complex, simple device,
and very rarely ever needs repairs, once you fix them. Dan/Panther

Listing Description:"Really Nice Western Electric Automatic Card Dialer. Marked 662A1 on the bottom. This phone looks like it has never been used. Card Index Set is unopened. Dial is nice and smooth. Looks like a small amount of corrosion around the feet."

A phone phanatic since I was less than 2 (thanks to Fisher Price); collector since a teenager; now able to afford to play!Favorite Phone: Western Electric Trimline - it just feels right holding it up to my face!

How were thew cards made up for these? Were they requested from the phone company?

I recently saw a Card Dialer ad--Bell gave you a set of cards, which you filled out using a pencil. There are a set of blank dots on one side of the card, and single numbers on the other. You filled in the dots that corresponded to the correct digit, and the phone read the sum of those dots as a phone number.

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Christian Petterson

"Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right" -Henry Ford

I recently saw a Card Dialer ad--Bell gave you a set of cards, which you filled out using a pencil. There are a set of blank dots on one side of the card, and single numbers on the other. You filled in the dots that corresponded to the correct digit, and the phone read the sum of those dots as a phone number.